Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 17:43:55 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Merv <nhughes AT cup DOT cam DOT ac DOT uk>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Problems with Emacs.
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On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Merv wrote:

> This all said. I type emacs and for a short while  there is some disk
> movement. Then I am returned to the dos prompt with no messages of any kind
> to instruct me as to why.

This usually happens if you unzip the package with an UnZip program which
doesn't support long filenames.  The long filenames get truncated when you
unzip, but when Emacs starts it sees that this is Windows 95 and tries to
find some files it loads at start-up using their long names, which fails. 

Either set LFN=n before starting Emacs (and lose the long filenames' 
support inside Emacs), or reinstall the package using an UnZip program 
which supports long filenames.